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Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do


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Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.



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No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.



And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.



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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.



I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.

I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.



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All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.





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